From: Steve Polta (email suppressed)
Date: Thu Feb 16 2006 - 16:56:25 PST
I've only substitute taught at AAC but what I've heard
is that teaching there is totally by the book, i.e.
teachers do not design their own syllabi or courses
but just recite preordained lesson plans. Maybe I'm
wrong. Some (teachers) are frustrated by this and some
are actually liberated by this, in that it's just "a
job" and not something that becomes a life (some
people don't want this). Just about every filmmaker in
the Bay Area who teaches has done time teaching at
AAC. I've heard the pay is good actually but again, I
don't know what that means but if all you do is clock
in and do a three hour routine, well...
My understanding is that, as far as filmmaking goes,
is that it is more of a trade school, in that you can
specialize in, say, editing and learn current software
backwards and forwards and be competent to get a job,
say cutting tv docs, afterwards. It's not much af an
"art" school but motivated people have made it work
well for them, as motivated people often do.
AAC indeed owes real estate all over SF. They have
converted mid-sized boutique hotels into strange,
highly supervized dorms. I've never been in one tho...
ps: sorry, i think it's called the academy of art
unversity now, not to be confused with sfai or the
mysterious, art institute international of san
francisco, which is something very similar yet
completely different.
steve polta
san francisco/ oaktown
--- Jason Halprin <email suppressed> wrote:
> The reputation that AAC had amongst young people
> when I lived in the
> Bay area ('01-'02) was that they were expensive to
> attend and it was a
> difficult environment to complete your studies in,
> but those who made
> it through the undergraduate programs were
> technically adept and able
> to get work easily. The photography of one student
> I knew there was
> very good, and his darkroom skills were exquisite.
>
> -Jason Halprin
> Chicago
>
> --- Steven Budden <email suppressed> wrote:
>
> > Actually, this is one of those rare instances
> where I wasn't being
> > sarcastic.
> >
> > There's a building on Taylor, Van Ness, Sutter,
> Geary, 2nd Street,
> > one
> > on Chestnut, one in SOMA.
> >
> > Some speculate that they actually make much of
> their money
> > investing
> > in real estate, and use their educational status
> to make deals.
> > Speculations abound. Also, the owner(s) are
> billionaires of some sort
> >
> > with vast collections of artifacts, including
> cars.
> >
> > What is most suspect is the quality of an
> education on might
> > receive
> > there. But a few MFA's I went to school with are
> teaching there and
> > I've heard no horror stories.
> >
> > Steven
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Brook Hinton <email suppressed>
> > To: email suppressed
> > Sent: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 12:16:42 -0800
> > Subject: Re: Film Job in San Francisco
> >
> > I suspect sarcasm
> >
> > Brook Hinton
> >
> > On Feb 16, 2006, at 11:10 AM, Steven Budden
> wrote:
> >
> > > The pay is low but someone will take the job
> for sure. The job
> > market > is a little slow here.
> > >
> > > That's the first time I've heard SF rental
> prices referred to as
> > >
> > reasonable. Isn't it still one of the more
> expensive markets in the >
> >
> > US?
> > >
> > > Anyway, the Academy of Art University has some
> sort of real
> > estate >
> > scam going so I don't think they have to worry
> about it. They own
> > many
> > > many large, beautiful buildings throughout the
> city and they pick
> > up
> > a > few more every year. Within five blocks of my
> apartment they
> > probably > own six buildings.
> > >
> > > Steven
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > It's amazing how little they pay ($13.50) and
> how much the
> > > expect...ridiculous!
> > >
> > > Send your camera or projector off, or get
> service on your flatbed
> >
> > and > your
> > > going to pay at
> > > least $50 and hour and up. Where I work you
> get paid what SFAA is
> > >
> > paying
> > > just to teach iMovie. And this is SF to boot
> where rents are so
> > > reasonable.
> > >
> > >
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